UP IFS Assn demands apology from IAS officer
The IFS association has strongly objected to the remarks by an IAS during a joint training session for IFS and IAS being conducted in the state capital. According to reports, IAS officer Hemant Kumar during the session subordinated the post of DFO to CDO, stating that DFO was equivalent to the junior engineers of the line department. The IFS association has now demanded an apology from the officer.
The IFS association has strongly objected to the remarks by an IAS at a joint training session for IFS and IAS being conducted in the state capital.
As per the letter shot off by secretary of the Indian Forest Services Association UP Eva Sharma to the director general of the Uttar Pradesh Academy of Administration and Management, where the training was being carried on, the comments were unnecessary.
The matter came up after one of the IFS officers Diksha Bhandari of 2013 batch reported that a session was conducted
I request you to seek an official apology from the said officer and also ban such officers as speakers in your prestigious institute EVA SHARMA, Secretary, IFS Association
on August 31 by Hemant Kumar IAS of 2008 batch posted in the secondary education department.
‘Kumar in one of his remarks subordinated the post of DFO to CDO, stating DFO as equivalent to the junior engineers of the line department,’ Bhandari stated to the association that has now taken up the matter with the academy management.
“The IFS association strongly objects to such absurd and highly derogatory remarks by such speakers of UPAAM, who are not even clear that the three all India services, namely IAS, IPS and IFS, are governed by the same AIS manual and fall in the same category,” Eva wrote to the director general.
She further wrote, “I request you to seek an official apology from the said officer and also ban such officers as speakers in your prestigious institute.”
The IFS Association has demanded an immediate action in the matter and that such speakers be banned from speaking at such sessions.